Baubles:
The
first “Christmas” trees were decorated with apples, strings of popcorn and
pastry treats in the shapes of stars, hearts and flowers. They were illuminated later by candles. The first glass baubles were
said to be made in Lauscha, Germany by Hans Greiner – at first, garlands of glass
balls and then glass figurines. In 1840’s,
illustrations of Queen Victoria and family around a Christmas tree festooned
with lights, and ornamental glass
baubles appeared in a London newspaper
and also in the American Godey’s Lady Book in 1860’s .
These illustrations encouraged a more
widespread practice of decorating trees with ornaments and baubles in both
Britain and America. Until the 1880's when the mass production of glass and moulded tree baubles began in earnest, tree decorations were created at home usually from paper, and lovingly used year after year.
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